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GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAV, AUGUST 4, 1919. VOL. 98. NO. 62
^BROTHERS
BUSINESS PROPERTY
, gAtgs $388.000—REAL
|<TKT4SG0ED WITH THE
|^.B< IV GREENSBORO
P OX KRWAY.
I -or Bickett is the man who
'5lice of cotton and tobacco
'HJiolWS with the Stars." but
I M Governor had been m Greens,
F . the Thomas Brothers sale
be could have said that
on Elm street is
lot do
NEW
,RRIS"
ked for
JaBHUi OFFICER IS
MORTALLY SHOT BY NEGRO.
hundred dollars per front foot
to street across the street .n
!, ; lhe City hall, is the way the
,', Brothers eealt in dirt in
,od town on Friday.
I .Thomas Brothers are on the
•Mn it comes to selling real
e or as some one has said.
Ifclin? in dirt." These twin auc-rirs
Rank Thomas and Capus
Cas. can put more nerve into
nspective buyers than any auc-haeers
that the writer has ever
, or heard talk.
| Think of selling $2S8.000 worth
within less than three
" Statesville. Xng. 3.—Deputy Sher-iff
Lloyd Cloninger, of Mooresville.
this county, this afternoon at 4
o'clock was shot and, it is believed,
mortally wounded while trying to
arrest Conner, a notorious negro,
near the negro camp meeting
grounds at Morris school house.
Trouble had been brewing there
since yesterday and this afternoon
the officers were notified of drunken
orgies and shooting scrapes going
on in the woods back of the camp
meeting grounds. Lloyd Cloninger,
Chief of Police Purr and Assistant
Brown left this afternoon for the
scene of the shooting.. Clonlnger,
on arriving, went towards Conner,
for whom he had a warrant, but the
negro ordered the officer back, at
the s3rr.e moment producing his gun
and firing at the officer, burning
Cloninger's coat sleeve with the
first shot. Cloninger then fired
twice and the negro turned and ran.
falling about 150 yards away with
two bullets in him. At this moment
another, as yet unidentified, negro
' ran up, shooting Clonlnger in the
back, the bullet passing clean
through the body. When the officer
whirled around to face his new an-tagonist
he was shot again in the
Shoot-'
QUIET PREVAILS IN THE
CHICAGO "BLACK BELT"
BUT IT IS ONLY AN '"ARMED
TRUCE" THINKS COL. A. E.
LORENZEN.
Mhlcago, 111., Aug. 1.—Quiet pre-vailed
in the "Black Belt" tonight
TO INVESTIGATE CAUSE
BXfSTffl. HIGH PRICES
GOVERNMENT* MACHINERY SET
IN MOTION AT THE DEMAND
OF THE PEOPLE.
Washington, July 31.—Govern-mental
machinery was set in motion
(property wuuiu ■"» —— . -
lars-and this is what actually] chest, right over the heart.
ing then became general, fully 50
after five days of intermittent race j to-day in response to demands from
rioting which has caused thirty-five the public that some official action
deaths and injury to some 1,600 jbe taken to relieve the high cost of
persons a number of whom may living.
die I Prices, as they affect the average
More than 6,000 state troops, the-'citizen, assumed first place in inter-bulk
of the police force, and 2,000 ' est in .the Capital. At the White
special policemen patrol the streets' House President Wilson was said to
in the troubled area on the south he giving "deep and very thought-
's Iful consideration" to problems pre-
Chief of Police Garrity tonight,, sented to him and the railroad ad-closed
all saloons, cabarets, athletic ministration by members of the
clubs and other meeting places, ex- railroad brotherhoods, who repre-cept
churches, in the negro district.j sented that prices would have to
While officials generally express-' come down or wages go up if social
ed satisfaction wiWi the outlook, unrest was not to develop into up-
Col. A. F. Lorenxen. of the first Illi- heavals.
nois reserves milicU. sonight describ- In the senate and house the sit-ed
the situation as an "armed! nation gave rise to several resolu-truce."
Itions to investigate the cause of ex-
Attorney General Brumsage de- isting price levels, another to reduce
clared that a search for weapons the volume of currency in circula-would
be unlawful. |«on as a means of deflating prices
Negro educators and religious one to request the attorney general
leaders in a statement declared "no- to stop speculation In foods on ex-torious
acts of search and seizure" changes, and another to sell this
j already had been committed and year's wheat crop at market prices
quoted the constitution to show that instead of at the government guar-supply
the most extensive collection
of industrial information ever gath-ered
by any government. Produc-tion
cost figures have been obtained
by the commission on industries
representing $30,000,000,000 worth
of capital as the result of its activ-ities
during the war in advising the
government what prices to pay for
the millions of dollars of purchases
made by it. For this reason, it is
believed the commission is ready to
urge that further investigations,
which seem to be foreshadowed by
resolutions pending in Congress
would only muddle the situation,
causing the loss of valuable time
and the waste of the money ini
volved.
Wholesalers Are the Profiteers.
The commissions Investigating
during the war, all of which dealt
only with the most authoritative in-formation
derived from the books of
companies involved, are said to
have shown that profiteering was at
a minimum in the retail trades,
most of the exorbitant profits which
are being made going to the manu-facturers
and wholesalers. As a
remedy, the commission generally is
understood to favor a licensing sys-tem
for corporations doing an in-terstate
business, the system to be
applied first in those cases where
the mulcting of the public has been
most flagrant.
THE SOUTH IS THE BEST
PLACE FOR TEE NEGRO
HE D3 GIVEN EVERY ENCOUR-AGEMENT
FOR GOOD CUBAN,
HONEST WORK BY WHITES.
___._. ___. - quoted tne constitution to snow tum .,_ ~ .. » w sho s being fired before friends e tQ^arn_8 antee. the difference to be put up by
ccoouulida ppilaaccee Dueeppuuttyy Sahneernifuf Cuiloonmnni-- . „ . . . ,. . "-- ••*
, . ' T, ». . .,_ shall not be abridged.
ger in a car and rush him here to the .
hospital, where small hope is held ! Alrao8t the ent,re issue ot a week'
out for his recovery. Ilv ne*ro newspaper with sensation-
Sheriff M. P. Alexander and a al headlines, was bought up by the
Consults-the
government.
Attorney General Holds
tion.
Late to-day Attorney General Pal-al
headlines, was bought up ny tne mer ^ e,ght b{gb g0Ternment 0r.
number of deputies from here have third reserve mi,iUa ln abaence oI
nclal8 whom he had summoned to
gone to the scene of the battle to authority to confiscate it.
bring the guilty negroes in.
DIRECTOR HINES' LETTER
TO PRESIDENT WILSON.
suc-his
office for a discussion of high
costs and the best methods to pur-sue
to effect a reduction. After a
general talk, lasting nearly three
Lened on Friday.
(Tie first sale was that of the Isa-
Lli Fisher property on North Elm
Ut opposite the city hall. This
Ljerty, with a frontage of approx*
uteiy 95 feet, was purchased a
days a?o by J. F. Thompson,
1 associates and by them put up-i
the market. There are five store,
joms in this block, each going to a
lilerent party. The total amount
laid was 5126.475 or an average
111.326 a front foot.
| The first piece, that occupied by
i & Blue, containing a two-
Jot? building, was bought by Poole
: Blue ior $1,500 a foot, or $36,-
Tbe adjoining property was
Indued by Dr. L. M. Humphrey
lr 51.325 a foot, or $24,207.75,
k adjoining property went to Mrs. «>ns.aerea oy toe r_»™_u «....--;Uon „ear|nB on vio,ence. m a state- — ~-■ -------- "—~""\
I Began at $1 '50 a foot or Oration's board ot wages and work- , t , „t ne called attention to ««"» several hundred thousand ew
MSwh h^UrsodJo i« conditions, wh.cn is composed Mayor Thomp801,8 8tatefnent thatg ^.p*jj
of three representatives of labor he Te(lve1itesA troops Wednesday whlch Kovernment officials nave
and three representatives ot the n,ght ^^ he had learned of a heard in a long time came in this
railroad managements. This board con9plracy to burn the negro dis- connection in the statement of W.
was unable to agree and therefore • rf m Hoyne 8aid it wa8 the »• Le»- President of the trainmen,
took no action as a'board. but on;mayor.a duty t0 submlt t0 him any ^re the wage adjustment board.
July 16 I received two reports from : inforraaUon concerning such con- *'• Lee told the board that an m-the
members of board, one from the , crease in wages-was not the proper
ne story storeroom. | « « from ^^man. »e.. |are laborlng> because they Wo„,d be
As an indication of the increase members recommending Mayor Thompson renewed his re- fouowed by new increases in the
values in this part of the city,! a^a^!f any general increase in luest before the police committee cost of everything. which would
■ noted that the Fisher property | J aithouKh recommending cer- to-day for 2.000 additional perma- more tnan abs0rb the additional
s " ,, . . , ., „„ .. nent policemen. He expressed the tain readjustments of the wages of "cu '
knlmf TKII rhQf
DAYLIGHT SAVING LAW
AGAIN PUT UP TO PRESTDENT.
Two whites and one negro
cumbed to injuries to-day.
Steps towards placing responsibil- _
ity for the rioting were taken to-day. hours, the conference disbanded to
After a conference with a score of meet again, probably next week, tor
Washington. Aug. 1.—Mr. Hines" j assistants. Attorney General Brum- further counsel based on additional
letter to the President, under date j 8age sent them among police courts information to be collected in the
of July 30, follows: and to the offices of the state's at- meantime.
"Several months ago the railroad torney and the coroner. j Trataman Lee's Plain Talk.
shop employes asked tor an in-j ,„ hi8 lnVegtigation. State's Attor-! It developed to-day that demands
increase In wages. The matter was; „ haB mgm tor lnforma- for more wages were psadteg be-considered
by the railroad admin-! Uon „earlnB on vlo,ence. m a state- *°™ th« railroad administration
IB. Harrison at an advance, it is
pderstood, of $50 a front foot.
i adjoining property was sold to
I. D. Meyer for $21,080. or Sl.-
|<9 a front foot. The last section
|! the Fisher property was bought
rW. W. Dick for $23,450. or |1,
Washington, Aug. 1.—The senate
to-day decided to have the proposal
for repeal of the daylight saving
law again run the gauntlet of Pres-ident
Wilson's veto. By a vote of
41 to 12 the senate passed and sent
to the President the separate house
bill repealing the daylight saving
measure.
During brief discussion of the
house bill, several senators predict-ed
that the measure, like the day-light
repeal rider on the agricul-tural
appropriation bill, would be
vetoed by the President. The sep-arate
house bill was passed June 18,
but action in the senate was sus-pended
until to-day and in the in-terim,
the President vetoed the rid-er
and the house was unable to en-act
it over the veto.
The senate's action now places
virtually similar repeal legislation
again, before the President. The
only difference in the vetoed rider
and the separate bill is that the lat-ter
would not interfere with stand-ard
zones of time.
p purchased only a couple of
r«sago for approximately $1,000
Jlfont foot, this showing an in-rw
of $326 a front toot during
N period.
I Re
-belief that there is "further trouble
some classes of the employes. .... «_ u .. _.
"The position of the labor mem- "bead." referring, he sa.d. to un-bers
ot the board is that the wages ^st and not to race riots,
of railroad shopmen are substantial-pay.
Stop Profiteering.
Until all classes get together to
stop "profiteering," he said, the
only thing for everyone to do is to
CHICAGO NEGROES ANXIOUS
TO RETURN TO THE SOUTH.
•.nown as the
adjoining the Fisher
Miss?
. balk at a
Lkes slip-
-luch gas •
3w away •
gear too
ire experi-fring
y°yr
fepair it m
i moderate
CO.,
lomers,
Oro, N- C 55
I-"* of railroad shopmen are substantial-' ' only tmng ior «v«ryu™ «. »» » ~
^ next property to go on the lv below the wages paid similar Shopmen Dissatisfied With Proposal, get all the wages he can. a course
W> what is .;nown ,;,a88es of employes in the navy , Washington. Aug. 2—Dissatisfied which he declared wouldi «*
yards, arsenals and ship yards, and w|t„ Pre8ldent Wilson's proposal to eventually ,n JJ^11*""* »he "J
in many industrial enterprise in the haTe Congre88 create a special body heaval now staring the country in
principal cities of the country. * * to pass on their demands, or consid- the fact.
Would Further Increase Cost of Llv- er them in connection with the high Sale of Surplus Army Food.
i„g. cost of living problem, the railway As a step toward breaking the
The position ot the management shopmen began to.^y to take an ^£j»^J ^j£
by the employes andJ^--—; STJSSTJSSZ.'Z »"
ISTi.M-'S tfS threatened, labor officials said to- ^cia, jjj, attend, ^^ttor-
.would simply begin a new cycle in day. .... Hi«P„« what took place. Mr. Pal-
'the increased cost ot living which R M Jewell, actn.g^iTr" atld h7the^conference was
would not benefit the employes. .^J^iS^SJSTS -Ued chiefiy for the purpose of
"They urge instead, the adoption ^ Director Gen. making a SUrvey of the situation
of effective methods of reducing • Hjneg ^^ in(ormed by the developing any information on
f& property
f»Perty.
"his was purchased some days
10 b? M- W. Gant. through A. K.
jre- from Oilmer Brothers, and
"»>n to ,»iil(.P n on sale wa8 not
*1 until the sale of the Fish-
..'it3W ha«l been concluded. This
Jtorchaw.,1 by Dr. J. L. Kernodle
'•!•>" a front foot, or $73,900
^entire amount ot 5D feet on»
"•haltincher
: proper* y
division
ill* ■vh.,1
'•r^ugiit
".IC
was first sold in
being understood
was to hp offered and
""•:«■ *K a whole, the
1 .i "hole. The bid-
"I Mi" three store
■'■ it. McClamroch.
w '«•' ■'■ $1,263. or $24,439.80:
L • B- Bogar! 1I..S0 feet at $1.-
li, ,'1*°: A. B. Joyner.
h*?u S!-'-'l">. or $24,907.50. £TDavie stre8t the prop"
Placed0'-' 0W"P" by N- L- EUre*
Raleigh. Aug. 2.—The fact that
negroes in Chicago Who went there
from the South want to return, fol-lowing
race riots in that city, was
revealed in a telegram from the
Chicago Herald and Examiner to
Governor Bickett yesterday. In that
telegram, the Chicago paper asked
the governor how many negroes
North Carolina can absorb. The
governor was not in the city to an-swer
the query-
The telegram follows:
"Many negroes who came here for
war work are anxious to return
I South if the South needs them.
Their spokesmen ask us to inquire
how many your state can absorb.
They are of the more industrious
I class, distinct from the bad element
responsible for the difficulties here.
Please rush answer at our expense."
Burlington, Aug. 3.—Governor
Bickett, who was a Burlington visi-tor
to-day, answered the request of
the Chicago-Herald Examiner for
expression ot opinion on the recent
raee riots in Washington and Chi-cago.
The governor tells the Chi-cago
paper that the Sooth is the
best place for the negro, "but," he
adds, "it during their residence in
Chicago any of those negroes have-become
tainted or intoxicated with
dreams ot social equality or of po-litical
dominion, it would be wen
for them to remain where they are,
for in the South such things are
forever impossible."
The reply ot the governor to the
Herald-Examiner's telegram fol-lows:
"Absence from my office prevent-ed
an immediate answer to your tel-egram.
By inheritance, by associa-tion
and by a sympathetic under-standing
of his virtues and his lim-itations,
the Southern white people
are the natural and consistent
friends ot the negro.
'The recent troubles in Washing-ton
and Chicago confirm my convic-tion
that the South is the best place
in the world tor a decent negro to
make a decent living. In the South
the negro is not only afforded every
opportunity, but is given every en-couragement
to do honest, clean
work. In North Carolina we are
doing all we can to foster and pro-mote
the kindliest relations between
the races, and to this end the wisest
and best men and women ot both
races are steadily working. In every
field of industry, in education, in
religion and before the law, we are
earnestly and honestly seeking to
secure the same privileges and pro-tection
tor the black people that is
accorded the whites. The negroes
of North Carolina know and Appre-ciate
that this policy is one of the
passions ot the present state admin-istration.
Socially, the two races
are kept separate and apart, and
the white man or the negro who at-tempts
to ignore the social barrier is
held in utter contempt by the best
people ot both races. Candor and
my deep friendship for and my
abiding interests in the permanent,
happiness of the negro race compel
me to add that it is the settled con-viction
of the best people In all po-litical
parties in the South that it is
necessary for the protection, the
progress and the happiness of both
races for the government to be run
by the white people, and it is the
unalterable determination of the
whites to keep in their own hands
the reins of government. The farms,
the lumber plants and the compan-ies
engaged In building public hlgh-
'ways in North Carolina can easily
! absorb 26.000 negroes who may de-
'sire to come to this state for the
j purpose of securing honorable em-ployment
at remunerative wages.
' But. if during their residence in
Chicago any ot these negroes have
become tainted or intoxicated with
dreams of social equality or of po-litical
dominion it would be welt
for them to remain waere they are,
for in the South such things are for-ever
impossible."
the cost of living; but they add which the head of the nation's law
b „. ' c"1 tn* market. The prop-
L»?*n«*" into three lots. E.
. "<m bough, tne flrat two at
. tro« fo„t. or ,9j000 for
the cost ot living; out ™», -«- representing the shopmen . x<
that unless some action can be tak- Satisfaction with the sug- enforcement machinery might act to
en within a reasonable time to ac- Congress intervene. .curb profiteering.
complish this result they see no si- scs
ternative but to continue the wage | _____———^——
cycle increase witn corresponding Graham Men Seriously Hurt.
increased cycles ot living costs.
• • •
"It seems to be a universal pas-time,
putting this thing up to the
attorney general." Mr. Palmer said
An- smilingly. "Even the governors
,,*"*>« bough, the first two
' foot, or $9,000 tor, 1K -
P- Scales bought the Wi»Res with the rapid increase in the as a reault of the auto in which
"l ai *212.50. or $5,196.45. cost ot ,ivin* ia not ««>naned to tne they were riding being struck by a
,>n 'he property was sold sn0D employes,
making the total
I • hou
•ton.
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5i"- th»
lor ( II!
tilP
and
lft foot alley.
Watkins to T
•at ((„jt
!,ri(* ^m
r.;"'ul « the fo„V
." '■ is *l;„<..!..
HO. ightly
, Burlington. Aug. 2.—Curtis
!drews. aged 30. and John Patrum. have taken to blaming this depart-
"The earnest insistence that im- aged 26. both of Graham, are in the ment for existing price levels."
mediate action be vasen to equalize local hospital in a serious condition . Prosec-tlon of Profiteers.
., .,. J :„„..„.,„„ ;„ ih.. _. ., .. in Wbich In -jgponse to quesitons. Mr. Pal-mer
admitted that there was no law
Southern engine this afternoon. bv wbich prices could be lowered
Both are suffering from fractured, directly, but he declined to say
legs, while it is feared that Patrum whether new legislation was needed
ffered internal injuries also.
t0 enable the department to punish
The Ford in which the young men men who may be guilty of profiteer-were
riding was struck by an east- ing.
bound engine, drawing a caboose, at "There is a great deal of good
t-ie crossing at McLeansville this law on the statute books." the at-a
ground jury. The investigation dis- afternoon at 3 o'clock. The ma- torney.W_^^_^.^_
I closed that less than 15 persons ac- chine was demolished and the oc- Trade Board Knows About It.
I closed thai.less than 15 |MM ac distance. ! When a course of action is_ecid-p.
eces equally participated in lynching the ™^nts
m ted„a, traae comrais.
""•0re than|Sing
Wrw:ranC "" a
Tnhde-broStPbere for treatment. ~ .ion is understood to be ready to
! A Record Month For Collections.
, Winston-Salerr. . aug. 1.—Reve-nue
collections at the local office ag-gregated
$6,308,624.62 for the
month ot July, although the office
has been closed since July 28. This
is an increase of $13,000 over
March, which made a new record
tor Winston-Salem. This morning.
A. S. Carson. J. H. i;:lley and R. B.
Richmond were sworn in as deputy
collectors under the re-organisation
plan. There will '.* no changes in
the personnel of the local office.
sale. ■' """
Arrested For Lynching Negro.
salesiipr, -i ... suffered "i then went to West; Gilmer, Tex.. Aug. 2—Four white ■»■""
where the vacant lot.' men charged with lynching Chilton
!|'" house
$436
sur- Jenning. a negro, here July 24,
was were arrested to-day after an in-
J. vestigation by the Upshur county
A Corn Farmer.
Spencer, July 31.—As an evi-dence
of good farming near Spencer
Love Hunberry this week shipped
700 bushels of corn to a High PoinJ,
firm at $1.95 per bushel. He also
has 300 bushels of wheat for sale
from a farm of about 200 acres
which he recently purchased near
town. In addition. Mr. Hunberry
had also sold lumber to the amount
of $3,500 this year. The corn ship-,
men this week was the largest of
the kind ever made from Spencer.
Apple Crop Shows Improvement.
Winchester, Va., July 31.—Mark-ed
improvement in the apple crop
generally in the Shenandoah-Cum-berland
district, extending from
Staunton. Va.. to Harrisburg. Pa..
is reported by growers as a result
of the return of seasonable weather
after a rainy period. Local storage
for 350.000 barrels has been pro-vided
for this season's crop. Owing
to the high price ot barrels more
apples will be shipped in bulk this
year than ever before. Barrel man-ufacturers
say the higher prices are
due to increased cost of material
and labor. The crop ot York Im-
' perials in this district will be about
I the same as last year, but other
j commercial varieties will be much
'. below normal.
All the Passengers KilletL
Rome. Aug. 2.—A caproni air-plane,
flying from Venice to Milan
to-day with 14 passengers abroa'i.
I fell to the ground from a height ot
1.000 metres near Verona. All on
I board were killed.
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